This is a paperback edition of this landmark study of Howard Barker's drama and poetry between 1969 and 1987. New paperback edition of this 1989 book will publish to coincide with major season of Barker's work in Paris in ...

Audience research, after a promising period during which some crucial advances were made, seems to be in decline in several ways, yet its tasks remain as important as ever. This article, originally a presentation at the ...

This paper examines the background and underlying assumptions involved in a public debate between Dr Kate Roberts and Dr Thomas Parry which was conducted in the columns of the Genedl newspaper in the early nineteen thirties. ...

The creation of an 'e' book documenting and interrogating the creation of Quarantine's most recent piece Make-believe. This will parallel the deconstruction of the theatrical presentation through the re-presentation of ...

'In Comes I' is about performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions in the agricultural landscape of eastern ...

This is the first attempt to engage with the repertoire of Music Theatre with the same approach that I take to my work with Quarantine. Stepping over the orchestra pit and seeking to develop a form that can allow the ...

Adam, Sian(Aberystwyth UniversityTheatre, Film and Television Studies, 2010-03-01)

The performance took the form of a 60-minute audio tour of Aberystwyth, starting at the train station and ending at the large shelter on the promenade. At ten minute intervals, walkers were set up with an Mp3 player, ...

I was tempted by North Shields Theatres; by Father Ted: the Complete Scripts; by the oft referenced but rarely encountered The Actor’s Analects, the pedagogical anecdotes of kabuki performers; by Thomas Sheridan’s Lectures ...

Recently, I read a novel by a young, local Welsh novelist. It was called Naw Mis, translated as Nine Months. It was an investigation into, and an attempt to deal with, loss. It dealt with the experiences of both the one ...

Martindale, Sarah(Aberystwyth UniversityTheatre, Film and Television Studies, 2011)

The status of ‘Shakespeare’ is an incredibly intricate cultural construct, which is influenced by circumstantially contingent hierarchies of value, academic discourses, institutional processes, educational curricula, and ...

The Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC-funded "'It was forty years ago today': Locating the Early History of Performance Art in Wales 1965-1979" Database is an online searchable resource containing as complete a ...

The AHRC-funded project led by Sally Mackey at the Central School of Speech and Drama, ‘Challenging Concepts of “Liquid” Place through Performing Practices in Community Contexts’, involves performative responses to an ...

This article will focus on the subject of ‘online drama’, i.e. drama made specifically to be viewed on the Internet. It aims to investigate and account for this new and unique form of serialized drama, explain and clarify ...

'Just a little bit of history repeating' is a context specific live art project for public space, initialy developed and proposed as the culmination of a research residency and commission awarded by 'b-side' (Weymouth, ...

'Just a little bit of history repeating' is a long-term context specific live art project for public space, initially developed and presented as the culmination of publicly funded research residency and commission awards ...

I never dreamed that I would become a comics researcher. Just about everything about me indicated against it. I didn't much read comics as a child (the odd solace of comics on holiday, plus a period of secret fascination ...